Manchester United fullback Patrice Evra admits it would've been difficult facing manager Sir Alex Ferguson if they had failed to win Sunday's derby.
"It would have been very difficult to go inside the dressing room if we had drawn," Evra told MUTV. "I think the manager would have given the hairdryer to everybody.
"But to score like that, in the last second of the game, was just amazing.
"The players on the bench were coming on the pitch, the fans, the atmosphere - this is why I say thanks to God I play in the Premier League and for United."
The Football Association might have the last word on Gary Neville's over-the-top goal celebration, plus Craig Bellamy's clash with a fan immediately after Michael Owen's matchwinner.
But Evra is more focussed on a title race in which everyone, apart from Chelsea, has now lost at least one game.
"It was important to win because City hadn't lost," he said.
"When we were drawing, I was thinking that people would start to say that City are still strong because they never lose. Now everybody has lost, except for Chelsea."